THE HOLY SP: RIT him to excite out of his own a just mclancholy,discon- tents, fears, a sense of guilt, as also to impress terrifying thoughts and apprehensions on his imagination. For so, it is said an evil spirit from the Lord tnnva, 1 Sam. xvi. 14. terrified him, frightened him with dreadful agitations of mind. And, that we may touch a little on this, by the way; the foundation of this trouble and dis- tress of Saul lay :in himself: For, as I do grant, that he was sometimes under an immediate agitation of body and mind from the powerful impressions of the devil upon him, for under them, it is said, he prophesied in the midst of the house, 1 Sam. xviii. 10. which argues an extraordinary and involuntary effect upon him; yet, principally, he wrought by the excitation and provoca- tion of his personaldistempers moral and natural. For these have in themselves a great efficacy in cruciating the minds of guilty persons. SoTacitus observes out of Plato; Annal. lib. G 55 Nèque frustra praestantissimus tt humanæ sapientiae firmare solitus est, si recludantur tr Tyrannoruin mentes posse aspici Ianiatus et ictus; tr quando ut corpora verberibus ita stevitia, libidine, tr malls consultis animus dilaceretur." The most emi- nent wise men was not wont in vain to affirm, that if the minds of tyrants were laid open and discovered, it would be seen how they were cruciated and punished; seeing that as the body is rent and torn by stripes, so is the mind, by cruelty, lusts, evil counsels and under- takings; so he, as I suppose from Plato de Repub. lib. 9. where Socrates disputes sundry things to that purpose. And another Roman historian gives us a signal instance hereof in Jugurtha, after he had contracted the guilt of many horrible wickednesses.* And yet this work in itself is of the same kind with what God sometimes employs holy angels about, because it is the execution of his righteous judgment. So it was a watcher and an holy one that in such a case smote 'Nebuchadnezzar with a sudden madness and frenzy, Dan. iv. 18, 1p. Sect 12. To return; as he is called the I-Ioly, so he is, thegood Spiritof God. Psal. cxliii. 10. 'tmv ova Neque post id locomen, Jngurthae dies aut nox ulla quieta fuit; ne- que loco negne manali coign= aut tempori oasis credere; civic hostisque junta mefuere: circurnspectare o a et mini strepito av pescere, alio atque alio loco saepe contra-deco,regium regsiescere, interdum somno excitus amplis animis tumultuo facers; ita formidine quasi vaecordia agitari, Bell Jugar. G AND HIS WORK. °la Tar- Thy Spirit is good, lead me into the landof up- rightness. So ours. Rather, Thy good Spirit shall lead ene. Or as Junius; Spiritu too bono deduc me ;lead me by thy good Spirit. The Chaldee here adds Ttos, the good Spirit of thy Holiness; or thy I-Ioly Good Spirit. Didymus Lib. 2. de Spirit. Sane. says that some copies here read Ta si,r, a remembrance whereof is in the MS. of Tecla and not elsewhere. So Nchem. ix. l0. Thougayest them minn;nn, that good . Spirit of thine to instruct them. And he is called so principally from his nature, which is essentially good; as there is none good but one, that is God, Matth. xix. 17. asal- so from his operations which are all good, as they are IIoly; and unto them that believe are full of goodness in their effects. Crel. Prolegum. p. 7. distinguishetlt between this good Spirit and the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Ghost. For this good Spirit lie would confine unto the Old Testament, making it the author or cause of those gifts of wisdom, courage, prudence, and gov- ernment that weregranted unto many of the people of old. So it is said of Bezaleel, that he was filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding, and in knowledge, Exod. xxxi. 3. So chap. xxxv. SI. That ia, saith he, with this good Spirit of God. So also it is pretended in allthose places . where the Spirit of God is said to come on men to enable them unto some great and extraordinary work; as Judg. iii. 10. But this is plainly to contradict the apostle, who tells us, that there are indeed various operations, but one Spirit; and that the one and self-same Spirit worked], all these things as he pleaseth. * And iÿ from every different or distinct effect of the Spirit of God, we must multiply spirits, and assign every one of them to a dis- tinct spirit, tao man will Itnow what to make ofthe Spi- rit of God at last. Probably we shall have so many feigned spirits, as to lose the only true one.... As to this particular instance, David prays that God would lead him by his good Spirit, Peal. cxliii. 10. Now, certain- ly this was no other but that Holy Spirit which he Nemosuspicetur alium Spiritum Sanctum fuisse in Santis, nimirum ante adventum Domini, et alium in Apostolic caeterisque Discipulis, to quasi nomina indimrentibus esse substontiis; possumus quidém testi- oria de Dvinis Literis exhibere, quia idem Spiritus et in Spostoli, et ñP ophetis fuerir, Paulus in Epistola quam ad Hebraeos scribit, de Psalmorum VolnmineTestimoninm proserens,a Spiritu Sancto id dictum se commemoratDidym de Spirit Servet. lib 1, 16
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